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Matthew 15:17
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
Matthew 15:17 · World English Bible
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Matthew 15:17 in other translations
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?
Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
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In context
14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
15 Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
16 So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
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